Course overview
This course introduces the concept of life-of-asset sustainability and delivers skills and practical tools, that can be implemented from resource project concept to asset closure to ensure sustainable outcomes. The course builds on concepts presented in Global Georesources and Human Perspectives of the Resources Industry with specific focus on measurement, monitoring and management of environmental and cultural heritage factors. Case study examples will be used to illustrate the importance of gathering baseline data relevant to ESG, from the earliest stages of exploration, through delivery of product to market and, eventually to asset ‘closure’.
Course learning outcomes
- Understand georesource project economics from a quadruple-bottom-line perspective, including traditional economic analysis plus environmental, social and governance factors (E+ESG)
- Understand and critique techniques for quantifying diverse E+ESG data into unified ‘Sustainability metrics’
- Understand practical considerations for developing a sustainable resource project
- Recognise the link between life-of-asset sustainability and inherent resource project characteristics and design a data capture and analytical program to identify key characteristics and inform a life-of-asset sustainability model
- Communicate complex ESG issues to a broad audience
Degree list
The following degrees include this course